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It’s LENSEL. Your weekly guide through the wedding photography universe. Here’s what we have for you today:
The ONE thing rule - a framework for better photos
Understanding what Instagram stories are for
Fridge photos (it’s a thing or not)
all the news and inspo from the week
Here’s what’s good this week ⬇️
NEWS AND INSPO
This Week
Sony actually DID IT. A new 28-70 f2 lens that is 500g lighter than Canon’s version. Consider the game changed. Here’s a great review, and here’s Sony’s write up.
Not an ordinary workshop. One of the more cinematic and unique photographers in the wedding space, The Ferros, announced they are holding a workshop next April in Lake Como. Ummm between us, you do not want to miss it.
Stealing Colours. This Lightroom plugin let’s you use the colours from any image that has embedded Lightroom data… Controversial, maybe. Interesting and helpful, definetly. You can try it now for $1 and make up your own mind. It’s called Goodhue btw.
⬇️ Insanely good coverage from beginning to end here by Irina and Matej 👌🏼 Absolutely worth your click and scroll
⬇️ Serious detail shot goodness here, as well as an abundance of colour in this Marrakesh wedding.
SHOOTING
🙌🏼 The One Thing Rule
Images: dalmare_photo and taylorphoto_
You know those shoots…
The hard ones.
Where you don’t get a second to think. To plan. To breathe.
Auto pilot ON just capturing what is happening in front of you…
Those shoots where just make it through the day and the photos turn out good but not great. Standard, not stand out?
Here’s the remedy.
The ONE THING RULE.
The one thing rule is a framework for thinking about taking photos that is SO dead simple it can help us in in pinch. It’s a thought process that says, “what’s the one thing, the one concept I can do here do to make this photo stand out.”
Because it does only take one thing to stand out, to make a photo interesting. When we scroll through a feed of normal and you see one thing that is different - we are immediately drawn to it. There’s a concept, a thought, an angle. So every time you take a photo, think, what is the one thing that will seperate this photo from just two people standing next to each other.
Let’s go deeper…
Inside this one thing framework are 4 areas we can think through and apply it to: Composition, Action, Pose, Technique
Images: jessicalilyphotography
Images by taylorphoto_ and bringmesomewherenice
Composition ⬆️
If all else is failing around you, can you bend your situation to create an interesting composition? Take that split second to think through how you are actually framing your shot. Some might be obvious like the top right image. Other’s not so much… Top left.
Sometimes it’s just a slight adjustment. Instead of just taking the photo straight on, maybe a little tilt, or a lower angle can move your image from good, to great.
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Until next week,
